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I agree, but I think it's mostly mutual - there are lots of opportunities for part time jobs but most people prefer full time employment. In fact, in Sweden th
by svantana 13y ago
I agree, but I think it's mostly mutual - there are lots of opportunities for part time jobs but most people prefer full time employment.
In fact, in Sweden there's a law that allows parents of children under 8 to work 75% of fulltime (30 hrs/week), but very few make use of it. I suspect that part of the reason is a fear of annoying the employer though.
- coldtea 13y ago>I agree, but I think it's mostly mutual - there are lots of opportunities for part time jobs but most people prefer full time employment. That's because they also prefer to have a full salary. It's not like employers, considering the increase productivity technology affords, offer full old-time salaries for part time work. If anything it's the inverse: buying power has dropped since the seventies (only partially offset in some areas with cheaper and more capable electronics, but not for things like housing, food, etc).
- Vivtek 13y agoI've seen it quoted that if Americans could accept a 1946 standard of living, we could have a 2.6-hour workday - as it is, some of that 5.4 hours goes to extra cars and televisions, and most of it goes to bolster the income of the suffering rich.